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Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

— Rajneesh

When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

You are all Buddhas. There is nothing you need to achieve. Just open your eyes.

— Gautama Buddha

“To just be--to be--amidst all doings, achievings, and becomings. This is the natural state of mind, or original, most fundamental state of being. This…

— Lama Surya Das

“In Buddhist thought, enlightenment is understood not as the presence of something but as the absence of something: the permanent extinction in our lives…

— Simon Parke

Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit,…

— Anonymous

“To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole.”

— Swami Dhyan Giten

“It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by means of…

— Hermann Hesse

Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is someone who…

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the guiding principles…

— Frederick Lenz

“Eventually, at Buddhahood, you become capable of remaining in the innate”

— Dalai Lama XIV